Louise Closser Hale

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Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 â?? July 26, 1933) was

an American actress, playwright and novelist.

Louise Closser was born either in Springfield, Massachusetts

or Chicago, Illinois (varying sources). Her father was Joseph A. Closser

(1844-1887), a wealthy grain dealer and her mother was Louise M. Closser

(1847-1932). She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York

City, and at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston.

She made her theatrical debut in Detroit in an 1884

production of In Old Kentucky. Her first theatrical success came in 1903, when

she appeared in a Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. In

1907, she made her London debut in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. She was

equally famous on New York and London stages, she was known to the world of

literature for such novels as Home Talent and An American's London, as well as

to the theatre for a play called Mother's Millions, which she co-authored.

In 1899, Closser married artist and actor Walter Hale, whose

name she used for her stage career, and who illustrated a number of her travel

books. She collaborated with him in the preparation of many travel works. They travelled

all over the world. She was a correspondent for Harper's during World War I.

Aged 57, following her husband's death from cancer in 1917,

she left the stage for Hollywood. She had a parallel career as an author and

playwright, starting in the first decade of the 20th century.

She experienced an apoplectic stroke while shopping in

Hollywood in 1933. She was rushed to Monte Sano Hospital. She suffered another

stroke the next day and died, aged 60. She had just recently finished filming Dinner

at Eight.

In her will Mrs Hale requested an Episcopalian funeral

service as simple and as inexpensive as possible. She directed that at the

close of the service her body be cremated and that "no friend or kin

accompany the body further than the church door". In her will Mrs Hale

said "If I live in the memory of my friends,I shall have lived long

enough".

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